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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

Subjects : clep, literature
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






2. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






3. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.






4. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.






5. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.






6. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






7. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






8. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






9. The conversation of characters in a literary work.






10. A strong pause within a line.






11. A three-line stanza.






12. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.






13. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.






14. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.






15. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.






16. The person who 'tells' the story.






17. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.






18. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






19. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






20. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.






21. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.






22. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






23. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.






24. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






25. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






26. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






27. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






28. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.






29. The selection of words in a literary work.






30. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.






31. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






32. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






33. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






34. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






35. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






36. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






37. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.






38. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






39. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.






40. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






41. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.






42. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






43. Broken down acts.






44. The series of events that make up a story or drama.






45. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






46. What a story or play is about.






47. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






48. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






49. A character struggles against some outside force.






50. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.